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We consider a model of international migration where skills of workers are imperfectly observed by firms in the host country and where information asymmetries are more severe for immigrants than for natives. There are two stages. In the first one, workers in the South decide whether to move and...
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Will the fast expansion of cash-based programming in developing countries increase international migration? Theoretically, cash transfers may favor international migration by relaxing liquidity, credit, and risk constraints. But transfers, especially those conditional upon staying at home, may...
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We consider a model of international migration where skills of workers are imperfectly observed by firms in the host country and where information asymmetries are more severe for immigrants than for natives. There are two stages. In the first one, workers in the South decide whether to move and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316010
) the recipient region if it specializes in labor-intensive (land-intensive) activities. If unemployment prevails in both …
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We study the effect of trade liberalization and intellectual property rights (IPR) protection on the unemployment rate … migration. We find that bilateral trade liberalization decreases the relative unemployment rate of migrants when migration is … low and increases the relative unemployment rate when the migration rate is high. The results do not rely on assumptions …
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This paper examines the impact of unemployment on out-migration by distinguishing between return and onward migration …, unemployment and out-migration using administrative data from the Netherlands. Our findings suggest that unemployment triggers … return migration more than onward migration. When total earnings are low unemployment increases the hazard of return …
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temporarily reduce unemployment and increase wages in periphery countries at the cost of somewhat higher unemployment in receiving …
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persistent unemployment level, and wages stickiness. On the aggregate level, we observe a self-enforcing process of real income …
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machines will. Such results change drastically when we consider a model with unemployment and finance dictates real outcomes … much more than before. Introducing finance affects trade patterns with unemployment and especially with imperfect credit …
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replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first …
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